First Year of the New Decade is Here - 2011
What's funny to me is the amount of posts kicking 2010 out the door because it was so terrible for them. The way I see it, every year is filled with ups and downs. That's the way of things. Even broken down to a monthly or weekly level, we have moments of warmth and cold. Why, as humans, do we find it so easy to recall the bad memories over the good ones? Or is it that it takes 5 times as many good things to make up for one bad? 2008 was probably my best / greatest year in the past five years. I met up with fantastic people in Spain, then we went to France, then to the UK. I began running and lost 50 lbs. Confidence and a little crazy soon followed. I dated and broke hearts. But I'll never forget that that year my paternal grandmother died. The grief of that lingers. Not every day, sure. But I think about how much I miss her more than I think about the times I had overseas, etc.
Still, I think at this time of year it's important for me to set goals and make a grand-scale "To Do List" for 2011. In years past I've written down 12 goals for the following year; one for every month (although some were things that would be started and continued throughout the following 12). Here's my list of 12 resolutions for 2011:
2011: I'm prepared to work for what I want. Be prepared to REWARD ME WITH IT!
Still, I think at this time of year it's important for me to set goals and make a grand-scale "To Do List" for 2011. In years past I've written down 12 goals for the following year; one for every month (although some were things that would be started and continued throughout the following 12). Here's my list of 12 resolutions for 2011:
- Continue playing guitar and learning songs and chords.
- Write a song. Play it. Sing it. Record it. Post it. Regret sharing.
- Run!
- 10k in April
- Half-marathon in August
- Full marathon before the end of 2011 (it's the 2500th anniversary of the first Marathon!)
- Get more comfortable on the Vibram's
- 10k in April
- Write!
- Finish total rewrite of HyVee
- Finish draft of Underneath. Rinse. Repeat.
- Continue Saturday Shorts
- Find a home for one (or two or all) of my shorts
- Finish total rewrite of HyVee
- Take SCUBA lessons and get certified
- Cage-dive with Great White Sharks! (Location TBD)
- Grow out hair
- Become an All-Time Vegan instead of a Part-Time Vegan (look, cookies and pastries are so damn good -- even when they make me break out in hives)
- Travel somewhere new (in-state, in-country, out-of-country, wherever)
- Mail books, presents, other items ASAP
- Re-vamp blog. Big things are planned for this space >:D
- Learn how to make Thai Curry and have people over to eat it
2011: I'm prepared to work for what I want. Be prepared to REWARD ME WITH IT!